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Jump Without Parachute a Terrible Career Move
Bo Emerson | August 11, 2010

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Atlanta. Having a Johnny Paycheck moment? Try to resist.

Because if you snap, like the JetBlue flight attendant who cussed out a passenger, grabbed a beer and slid out the emergency chute earlier this week, you may find re-entry into the job market difficult.

“I would say this person’s going to have a hard time getting rehired,” said Monty Grubb, an industrial psychologist who works with businesses in high-stress fields, including nuclear power plants and emergency rooms.

Flight attendants certainly fit that bill. Both they and their passengers have become more stressed over the past 10 years, as demands on each have increased.

Mary Mac Saunders never saw a flight attendant quit mid-flight during the years in the 1960s that she worked as a “stewardess,” as she was called, “but people are not as nice today as they were then.”

There was also an explicit policy back then that the passenger was always right. Today, said Saunders, the passenger is sometimes very wrong. Frequently it is up to the flight attendant to determine the difference, which adds more stress.

Plenty of folks can empathize with the character in the Johnny Paycheck song who says “I ain’t working here no more.”

In one example, preserved forever online at americanrhetoric.com, a fed-up DJ at an Alabama radio station felt abused by management, and took her beef on air.

In 2006, Inetta “the Moodsetta” Hinton, at WBLX radio told her listeners, “It’s ridiculous. It is sad. I can’t take it. I’m not gonna to take it. Inetta will not be settin’ the mood at ‘BLX no more.”

There is no evidence that she spun Mr. Paycheck’s record immediately afterward.

 
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